
Threat Protection
What is Advanced Threat Protection?
Advanced threat protection (ATP) is a subset of security solutions built to defend sensitive data against complex cyberattacks, including malware, phishing campaigns, and more. ATP often combines cloud security, email security, endpoint security, and more to augment an organization’s defenses amid the ever-changing threat landscape. Fortunately, as attack surfaces widen and new cyberthreats and attack vectors emerge, cybersecurity technology is evolving past firewalls and traditional network security.

What Are the Benefits of Advanced Threat Protection?
In the modern threat landscape, ATP lets you fight fire with fire. Unlike traditional security products, which tend to be disconnected single-purpose solutions, today’s most effective tools work together to give you:
What Makes a Threat “Advanced?”
A threat can earn this label for a few different reasons. For instance, a threat may be advanced if:
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Its perpetrators have unlimited resources or tools to carry out an attack and maintain access to a network
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Attackers have ready access to funding to adapt an attack as needed
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An attack has been crafted to target a specific organization
Let’s put a little more context around advanced threats in their various forms.
Advanced Persistent Threats
An advanced persistent threat (APT—not to be confused with ATP) is an attack in which an attacker stealthily gains access to an organization’s network and establishes a foothold, allowing them to remain there undetected for an extended period. APTs often target a specific company and tend to use advanced malware that can bypass or dodge common security measures. They are sophisticated attacks that need to be met with equally sophisticated defense.
Once an attacker gains access to a target network, usually through credential phishing attacks or malware, they may be able to access anything from company data to private conversations and other sensitive material. If they stay undetected for long enough—weeks, months, or perhaps even years—they can gather huge amounts of data to use for malicious purposes.

What Are the Most Common Advanced Attack Methods?
Advanced attacks share a few core techniques that most frequently get bad actors where they want to go. The most prevalent of these are:
Threat Intelligence
Threat Intelligence module provides a comprehensive view of your unique threat landscape through a combination of automated analytics, human-finished intelligence, and advanced search and analysis capabilities.
Challenge
The modern threat landscape is vast, complex, and constantly evolving. The idea that organizations can be fully secured against any and all potential threats has become untenable. Organizations of all sizes and nearly every industry face a never-ending set of challenges when trying to protect their digital assets from adversaries. The use and implementation of threat intelligence is a critical component of today’s modern security team. When used to its full potential, it is often the difference between preventing an incident from happening and being a victim of a cyber incident.
Solution
Defending against new and emerging cyber threats requires timely, relevant insights updated in real-time. Threat Intelligence module provides a comprehensive view of your unique threat landscape through a combination of automated analytics, human-finished intelligence, and advanced search and analysis capabilities. With our Intelligence Cloud, billions of entities are fused together to deliver original research to dynamically categorize, link, and analyze intelligence with unprecedented speed, arming you with easyto-consume insights that are easily integrated directly into your existing security tools and workflows. The world’s most advanced intelligence cloud empowers you to make fast, confident decisions. Features like advanced querying capabilities, real-time alerting, and threat visualization capabilities provide the context you need for advanced threat research and threat hunting. Quickly detect critical threats with the Threat Intelligence module – and get ahead of emerging ones to disrupt adversaries before they get to you.